[BlackElk]

Actually, you can take to the bank that Edward III was not the son of Edward II (a flaming lavender queen and a sort of talentless Freddie Mercury) who never consummated his marriage to Isabella, the daughter of French King Philip the Fair. She left England for France, joining the French knight who was the likely father of Edward III, then returned to England to dispatch Edward II by taking him off the throne to a palace outside London where they executed him at length by slicing off body parts until he died. Isabella served as regent for her son until he came of age and ordered his real father executed and her placed under house arrest until she entered a convent. Braveheart covers the perversion of Edward II quite accurately even though it portrays William Wallace as Isabella's lover which is rather unlikely since she was a child when he was murdered by Edward I.

Another who comes immediately to mind is Henry VIII's son who succeeded him. Since the Church law of the time prohibited Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon much less his marriage to five others, only his daughter Mary (by Catherine of Aragon) was a legitimate heir. Lizzie I was also a bastard, therefore.

How very unlikely it is that no other bastards ever sat upon the Brit throne??? I do admit sympathizing with my Irosh ancestors over my British ancestors.

I might add that Britain would have profited from having some competent bastard on the throne instead of the likes of George III

[kabumpo]

By the time that Henry VIII married his third wife Jane Seymour and begat his son Edward, his two previous wives were deceased, therefore his marriage to JS was legitimate and so was his heir.
Catholics may not recognize the Protestant church or divorce, but according to the law in England at that time, Henry’s divorce from Catherine and and marriage to Anne Boleyn was legitimate; Henry and Catherine’s daughter Mary recognized her half-sister Elizabeth as her heir.
You are dealing wirh pure conjecture when you say that Edw II was not the father of Edw III. Many homosexuals marry women and father children. An outstanding example closer to our own time is the writer Oscar Wilde.